Talk:Pseudo-runes

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Be careful not to confuse Ger for Ior

Ger has two shapes: in manuscripts and on the Brandon Pin it looks like ᛄ, but elsewhere it looks like ᛡ. This has lead to a lot of confusion with people thinking instances of Ger are epigraphical instances of Ior (a rune found only in manuscript tradition). Someone had even written on this article that Ior shows up epigraphically on the Seax of Beagnoth, but it's overwhelmingly more likely that this rune is really Ger: the Seax of Beagnoth has its runes aligned alphabetically, and the rune in question holds the spot where Ger normally occupies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blodcyning (talk • contribs) 21:44, 10 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Aesthetic reasons

[...] which is mainly done for aesthetic reasons

Arguably, perfectly authentic runestaves like the Vegvísir and the Helm of Awe owe at least some of their elegant design to purely aesthetic considerations, i.e., their radial symmetry is pleasing to the eye. Aesthetic motivations unite form and function, and should not be dismissed out of hand as if they were entirely part of the airy-fairy and empty-headed world of uninformed Neopaganism. Nuttyskin (talk) 18:18, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Elaborate? Neopagans use the samestave principle for aesthetic reasons, as opposed to some other reason. What are you emphasizing?

Also, "authentic runestaves"? Vegvísir and the Helm of Awe are neither related to runes nor authentic magic staves. They are not recorded in the wild at all. Blockhaj (talk) 04:39, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]